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DRIVING THOUGHTS This will be a good time for local government units to document the best practices of their barangays in the prevention of the spread of COVID-19. These can be shared with other LGUs which can localize the practices to fit their communities. More than a year after the World Health...

DRIVING THOUGHTS Yes, travel outside of the NCR-Plus is now allowed but it cannot be a spontaneous act.  A lot of preparation is needed to get all the travel documents together, which will depend on the requirements set by the local government unit (LGU) of your destination. We recently drove to...

DRIVING THOUGHTS Acts of kindness should always make it to the news especially if it comes from people who do not have much to share. One of them comes from a woman named Carol, from Bacolod City, who gathers food scraps to feed her pigs, who are not actually hers but are owned by neighbors.  She...

DRIVING THOUGHTS Pinky Concha-Colmenares I’m moving from the Motoring section to the Opinion page, but after decades of editing and writing motoring stories, I can’t shake off the motoring mind. I’m bringing that with me through the column title —  Driving Thoughts. And the first driving...

This pandemic is unveiling many kinds of heroes.  Big stories are coming out from the lives of small people.   We have celebrated — and now keep in our hearts — our new heroes, the medical workers who each day brave the battlefield of a deadly virus to save lives and help the sick...